Palgrave Macmillan | Happiness Studies: An Introduction (2021 EN)

Author: Tal Tal Ben-Shahar
Full Title: Happiness Studies: An Introduction
Publisher: ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2021 edition (July 4, 2021)
Year: 2021
ISBN-13: 9783030648695 (978-3-030-64869-5), 9783030648688 (978-3-030-64868-8)
ISBN-10: 3030648699, 3030648680
Pages: 118
Language: English
Genre: Philosophy: Social Philosophy
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True, but nonnative Cover)
Quality: 9/10
Price: 24.60 €


In this book, Tal Ben-Shahar introduces a new interdisciplinary field of study that is dedicated to exploring happiness. The study of happiness ought not be left to psychologists alone. Philosophers, theologians, biologists, economists, and scholars from other disciplines have explored ways of attaining happiness, and to do justice to this important pursuit, we ought to listen to their words and experiment with their prescriptions. Not only does the field of happiness studies embrace different disciplines, it also approaches happiness as a multifaceted and multidimensional variable that includes five parts which form the acronym SPIRE:

✓ Spiritual wellbeing
✓ Physical wellbeing
✓ Intellectual wellbeing
✓ Relational wellbeing
✓ Emotional wellbeing

This book addresses each of these elements of happiness, explains them, and addresses practical ways for their cultivation.


Overview:
✓ An accessible guidebook for the emerging field of Happiness Studies
✓ Offers an account of well-being that can be applied as a formula for increasing the happiness quotient in our lives
✓ Argues for five fundamental principles as the building blocks of well-being, and explains, clearly and persuasively, how these principles can be enacted intentionally and to great benefit to individuals, families, and communities

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